Films and TV shows that feel like You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift
A wistful, hopeful teenage crush from the sidelines: the overlooked best friend certain the right person has been next door all along.
- She's All That (1999): The overlooked girl gets noticed and the popular-crowd romance is upended.
- Easy A (2010): Witty, warm high school comedy with a heroine who outshines the cliché around her.
- Sixteen Candles (1984): Classic longing from the sidelines, with a crush who is attached to someone else.
- Friday Night Lights (2006): Small-town football bleachers and earnest teenage hearts.
- Gilmore Girls (2000): Cozy small-town charm with long-simmering friends-to-lovers tension.
- Clueless (1995): Realizing the person who was there all along is the right one, in a bright, funny teen world.
- Dawson's Creek (1998): Next-door best friends, bedroom-window intimacy, and love triangles.
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012): A tender, nostalgic look at the outsider watching from the edges.